Cisco IOS XR 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a long BGP UPDATE message, as demonstrated by a message with many AS numbers in the AS Path Attribute.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1022756 | vdb entry |
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af150f.shtml | patch vendor advisory |